Displaying only Date from XML

[RamosDevil]

Hey all,

I'm teaching myself XML while doing some freelance work, and have run into a problem. I'm pulling in an external .xml file and trying to pull just the date, but the XML has a pretty complex nomenclature for the date.

<pubDate>
<![CDATA[ Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:46:09 EST ]]>
</pubDate>

I'm pulling this into my page using:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","/rss.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML; 

document.write("<table border='1'>");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("item");
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
  { 
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("pubDate")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  }
document.write("</table>");
</script>

How do I make the script pull just the date? So instead of:

"Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:46:09 EST"

it would should up as simply:

"December 27"

Thanks for the help in advance.

[Dormilich]

you need to parse the date (using JavaScript’s Date object) and extract the relevant information. what XML delivers is just the date string.